The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1914, Page 20

» FLOOEY *°SMATTER POP?” ) THEN W and AXEL By Vic ‘Well, Axel Has More Brains Left Than Home and Comic Page et {IF You Hap FIFTEEN ENTS AND SPENT FouR ENTS FOR PEANUTS. HAT WOULD ———1 ou HAVE ? an a THIS GONNA BE A GREAT SCENE AKEL! ALL ‘You GoTTA do ts HIDE BEHIND THay Rock AN SET YouR WAT SHOT OFF BY A SHARP SHOOTER |, SER? He'LL KNOCK IT OFF WITH OWE SHOT OUT OF HIS ABOUT PLAYS | BY BIDE intention of the United Book- OMfices to cut the salarios of ile performers has caused Loew to assume that famous that won't come off. Mr. Loew quite a sizable circuit of vaude- theatres of his‘own, and he can good acts almost any time, pro- he can get them on reasonable and can induce them to play times a da: When Mr, Loew of the U. B. O.'s announcement ing salaries he baited his hook an offer of forty weeks’ time, his line into the vaudeville im and began a period of watch- waiting. Results bave begun to in. i fteen “big time” acts have en- tered into negotiations for Loew con- te, Already Marshall P. Wilder Joe Welch have agreed to Loew houses, and Rooney and Conroy and Le Maire and oth- ro on the verge. It may be ue that is sending these recog- acts to the Loew circuit, but ore likely those forty weeks. imes wre not any too good for the Vaudeville actors just Mr. Loew ty still’ Ashing, M. Sebenck is busily digging i CAWTHORN GOT A RAISE. In 1889 Joo Cawt he Girl From Utah" pnd ¥ 1, man AND PLAYERS DUDLEY * ager of “Mr, Wu,” were members of an “Uncle Tom's company out in Ohio, It wi tent affair and travelled from town town wagons. One night the trou in « German settlement, was filled with Teutons, e tent but. they ' what was gaing on. After the frst act the manager came to Cawthorn | with an idea, be speak German, don't you?" | ." replied Cawthorn, Bimon Legree during the rest of the show and play Jt in German.” He did and the audience was wild- ly enthusiastic. After the perform. ance the manager raised Cawthorn's salary from $5.60 to $6 a week, ROBINSON SUCCEEDS NASH. E. M. Robinson has been selected to eed the late Phil Nash as man- age! of the family department of the United Booking offices. Robinson will take up his new du In two weeks. He has been book! eoveral theatres. | CUTTING EXPENSES. i One of the younger managers rented fome acenery recently and sent a play out on the road, On account of finan- cial conditions in tho territory it has 8 been losing money r has not found it | convenient to pay the rent on his stage settings. A day or two ago he didn’t neem able to understand just ; {for Munsey's Magazine, of THE EVENING WORL a ‘OME ON, LETS SEE WHAT tind OF AMATHEMATICIAN Don‘y ney Yer HEAD STICK OVER THE ROCK AXEL ,OR You'll LOSE WHAT UT TLE BRAINS You Gor LEFT ! me ar ie Wits; (3 bY F: the owner of the scenery on ‘8 the show doing?” the man- ager was asked, "Terribly," he replied. “By the way,” he added, “I'm cutting down expenses all around, Could you see your way clear to reduce the rental on that scenery a little?” . PREMIERE MONDAY NIGHT. Klaw & Erlanger will send the) “Papa's Darling’ company to Phil-/ adelphia Saturday, where it will open’ at tho Forreat Theatre Mond: evens ni ‘The ach seanon. Darting” will ought to th ww Amsterdam after a brief Philadelphia engagement, MANTLE TO LEAVE MUNSEY'S After Oct. 31, Burns Mantle will ne longer handle ‘the stage department Matthew White jr. will take up that work. Mr. Mantle is retiriniy to do special | work for several publications. STOCK FOR THE BRONX. Bronx Theatre will have a dramatic stock company beginning a week from Monday. Mrs. Pauline Boyle, who has stock in the Gotham, will be in charge. “DAMAGED GOODS" AGAIN, Richard Bennett ism't to appear in “Damaged Goods” this season, Leffie: & Bratton have acquired rights co ering the presentation of that play and will launch a company In {t Mon- day at the Grand Opera House, The| company will be known as “Richard | Bennett's Co-Workers.” OLD STAGE RELICS. Tho Elder collection of theutrical miscellany embraces a playbill of the Nassau Street Theatre, the firat play- ' hous 176 You ARE ALL READY A) D, Thursday. October 15. we xen? KEEP Yer HEAD Down! SHOOT ad, AM 4 OF COURSE ws Oa J TEN \\ vy Wis >, Ube “aap GY, See WILL, TOMMY — IT COM! es TO DEPENDING THe Femiry HONOR IM RIG WITH BUDDY HOOPER 1GoTTA STICK UP <7 in New York, di the New York Stage, which contains autographed letters and playbills covering a century and a half of the American drama, Gossip. A new play by Harriet Ford is to be tried out at the Burbank Theatro, Los Angeles. Mabel Riegelman, for four years with the Chicago Opera Company, has been engaged by dreas Dippel for “The Lilac Domin Belle Gold has given up the stage, temporarily at least, to write moving ros. Carleton is Rreawelay “The of Jericho” in films. io was formerly with the Lubin Company. Rudolph Frim) has in commis. sioned by the Messrs. Shubert to com- pose several numbers for the new Emma Trentini opera, The Professional Woman's League will hold its 1914 bazaar in its club rooms, No, 1999 Broadway, the first eck in December. Isuac Samansky asked Leo Shubert | yesterday to let him go on the road as er of one of the “Ireland, a Na- mn" films. Mr, Shubert demurred at the combination, Estelle ll, ushers at the Eltinge Thi '@ retired from the stage. Thi with “Potash and Perlmutter” a but found acting too trying on rves. les Klein has sen. his check for $100 to William Faversham with the request that it be added to the fund being raised to assist destitute (Vaal people in France and Eng- land. anklin Sargent will address the f h hris- it, at the Hotel Astor on the afternoon of Oct. yer and the entire Party" will be gu of the club. Androw Carnegl THE HIGH COST OF LOVING ft L ENJOYED Busy THAT TAXI" RIDE SO ~ WASN'T SO WE COULD TAKE ONE EVEAY EVENING ! LISTEN — I'M BUSTED a VLL PAY YOU NEXT Od NIX! You nAK OTTA 00D {move the hay from t! 27. Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, Joan Saw- | Hlakesley's Hurlesquer: of "The Third |Monday and Ispeak well nda large num-!(Kan.) Pantagraph, “Wars of the World” spec morrow night. The an- negie, the Rev. Stephei Canon Chase and ot! 8S. Wise, will speak. A UNIQUE CELEBRATION. William H. Thomppon and his wife, known professionally as Isat: Irving, will celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniv ni Mr. Thompson is playing M. Cohan's iy, Th His wife with the Chicago “Under Cover’ company. These two companies are planning to give suppers after their performances on the anniversary date, with Mr. Thompson the guest in New York and Miss Irving in Chi- cago. Phonographic greetings from the two guests-to-be have been made and will be heard at the suppers. YBIL” GOES'TO BOSTON. Charles Frohmi has arranged to extend the engagement of the Sander- son-Brian-Cawthorne company in “The Girl from Utah,” at the Knick- erbocker Theatre until after the New Year arrives. This will necessitate his opening bis latest musical comedy v ction, “Sybil,” somewhere else. Mr. Frohman will give “Sybil” its start in Boston. AND HE WAS RIGHT, Saturday in Philly baer) ‘Ball ings unto Mack: “We're going up to Boston, ‘We're never coming ba: USHERS, TAKE NOTICE! ‘Will the ushers wo are working on the railroad grade pl take Friday off and sist Man. Newton re- opera house? will be here Eastern papers show.—Wallace of th we raary in @ unique manner Mon- | ht ed Dec, 20,| ber of ministers will see the Hippo- | nd a set of Ireland's Tecords of | drom By C. M. Payne. Ces 9 1914 ‘ 6" LOLLY POP. AND Vc TITHE KWEAM THE MARRYING HICKVILLE DOINGS BY HAZEN CONKLIN Copyright, 1914, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), HAPPENINS AND DOINS. ! MOS CRABB, our aneerer, is right back sneerin form agin. He sneered those here sneers for us right offen the bat and without drawin his breath moren twict. There is a sight of folks who boast of thing which a modest feller would confe If beauty is only skin deep there's a sight of folks who would look better peeled. The more I sew of some men the leas I criticise mules. Some men make fools of theirselves. Others don’t have to. Beu Bellows, our lusty blacksmith, was impin when we see him yestid- day. He sat on a hoss-shoe. The hoss-shoe was on the off hind foot ef one of Lemuel Tibbet’s mules, Lew Ballum, ou’ enterprisin tin- tinker, had @ fit in Remis Bro,’s Em- porium yestidday. He says it was the first sult of store clothes that Bemis Bros. have bad in his size, who come to us from the) had a call from a chure in the South, but he says as he reckons he'll stay North, we ye9, TLL TELL Youst WHEN To SToP ! local | in} | th Them city folks, name of Hall, who bought the old Spooner place, took the old sun dial outen the garden and * cook is usin it for a waffle iron. Tho cook told us as how them five Hall girls bas sech awful appetites that ary one of them kin eat clean to eleven or twelve o'clock at a single sittin, Judgin from the size of the sun dial, as we remember it, them’s some appetites! Postmaster Peleg Peeks says he don't git much chanst to read these days, seein as how the postcard habit is droppin off. About the only chanst he has is when somebuddy forgits to lick the flap of the envelope. Jennie Hillbush has give the dog Bud Halters give to her back to him. for 1,654 reasons, all fleas. A rich relative of Bert Bell's has give him a wad of money. Bert ts trying to make up his mind whether to put the hull seven dollars in the bank and let the interest pile up or to spend $2.60 of it for a.new parlor rocker. Mrs, Bell allows as how if she's his better half, as he's allus ad- mittin’, the lion's share of the for- tune is by rights hern. Bert ye as how he supposes now he'll be pos- tered to death by folks comin’ up By Carmichael IT'S A 400D THING WE DIDN'T "RIDE TEN MILES FURTHER ! OF MARY Tommy Lost “By Default.” Hickory Junction Chronicle. Abigail Peabody put a risin of bread on the kitchen shelf night afore last. Durin’ the night Zebulen Spid- ders, her hired man, come down etaire to light a lantern to see what was raisin’ a commotion tn the and gropin’ for the box he grabbed into one of got his fingers all dough. Whenever has @ habit of runnin’ through his hair, which he dene time, leavin’ half the dough tm hatr, and half bis bair, which te out, etuck to his hand. Thee he tried to put the loaf back into shape agia, the results of which considerably wor- ried Abigall next mornin’, she figurian’ that she must of spilled hair tomte in ‘the bread by mistake, seein’ it had growed so many spears over night Bovis Des end cis Raacally Bill Smith, EORGE NEWMAN @ ( ; recent Baltimore convent « advertising men told of the midnight banquet a sumber ef ad- vertising anecdotes. “Then there was Bill Smith"—#e one anecdotes began—“the rascally Bill Smith, who put in all the papers an advertisement saying: “Send thirty two-cent a for peedy, safe and certain rhe Meters A wood many people, thelr proper- ties being overrun with rats, sent | for the rat exterminator. In for their thirty stamps they recipe from Bill: eis “Treat your rata with kindness— they'll die of surprise on the spot!” —Haltimore News. FORTIFY YOUR SYSTEM BY TAKING 'MALTO-FERRIN NOW Eepec' iy recommended for vol ree